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Our jobs of the week on Dezeen Jobs are positions with Specialized Bicycle Components in California, who recently unveiled the world's fastest road bike (pictured) in collaboration with McLaren. Visit the ads for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. Image credit: Steve Gallagher View the full article

Dutch studio Personal Architecture has renovated one of Piet Bloms' iconic Cube Houses in Rotterdam to create a residence for delinquents in their final stages of detention (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled a prototype electric car that folds in half. (more...) View the full article

Here's another small-scale project featuring strikingly realistic renderings - this time a timber-clad home in England by Ström Architects, who claim that investing in quality CGI is "more effective than advertising" (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: in the first of a new series of stories about music videos, creative duo Joe Stevens and Nicolas Randall discuss their movie featuring a group of street dancers spinning signs to the beat of Daft Punk's new single, Lose Yourself to Dance (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

Original floor tiles were relocated to highlight seating areas during designer Laura Bonell Mas' renovation of this Barcelona apartment (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Gigantic tree-like columns support the overhanging roof of the Qatar National Convention Centre by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, captured in these new shots by Portuguese photographer Nelson Garrido. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Benedikt Groß has digitally "printed" a field with a pattern of oats and wild flowers (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Two Denmark architects have designed a concept for narrow apartments that fill tiny gaps between existing buildings. (more...) View the full article

A dazzling white house in Japan (pictured) and a picture frame-shaped hotel feature in Dezeen Mail issue 166, along with the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 166 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Portuguese studio Clínica de Arquitectura has installed a pavilion with 12 concrete ribs in a garden at the University of Porto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: furniture designer Charles Pollock has died in a house fire in New York, aged 83. (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm Lagado Architects have designed a temporary public toilet block with wide open sections in the roof so users can sit on the toilet and look up into the sky (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The front facade of this faceted house in Singapore by Formwerkz Architects is interrupted by a shard of tinted glazing. (more...) View the full article

Crinkled polished metal wraps around this electrical testing facility in northern Spain by ACXT Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Norwegian designer Kim Thome has installed a series of two-way mirrors that reflect vinyl stripes covering the walls of a London gallery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A labyrinth of brick walls, arches and courtyards are protected from flooding behind a man-made embankment at this open-air community centre in rural Bangladesh (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Portuguese artist Ana Rita Antonio has designed an installation based on fourteen different ways to replace a table leg by piling up other objects in its place. (more...) View the full article

Berlin-based Danish architect Sigurd Larsen has designed a collection of tables and benches with surfaces made from materials chosen to age well (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: California studio Smith|Allen has completed the world's first architectural structure using standard 3D printers (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

Shooting events during the 2016 Olympic Games will take place at this timber and concrete complex in north-west Rio by Brazilian studio BCMF Arquitetos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a residential development designed by Richard Rogers to adjoin two streets in London's Mayfair via a paved arcade has been granted approval. (more...) View the full article

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This house in Alabama folds open to provide seating for an open-air performance space (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Madrid firm OOIIO has designed a lopsided photo frame-shaped hotel that appears to have crashed into a cliff face near Lima in Peru. (more...) View the full article